Youth (Tanzania, Zanzibar)

In Zanzibar's informal economy, roadside stalls are part of a vernacular architecture: built without plans, with makeshift materials—palm leaves, corrugated iron, coral blocks—they form a flexible fabric that responds to the vagaries of daily life. This is called adaptive architecture , where form follows resource rather than function.

Behind these stalls, it is often women who keep the household's living accounts. Children participate very early, but in a logic of integrated learning, close to the principle of "scaffolding" in cognitive anthropology: through small gestures, they acquire autonomy and responsibility.

Every container carried on the head, every piece returned, is part of an ultra-local circular economy—where the boundaries between work, learning, and social connection are blurred.